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http://www.hmsvictory.ngfl.gov.uk/victory/custom/files_uploaded/gallery/modern_warship.jpg
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/images/ddg-71_051024-n-4374s-010.jpg
(The picture is to give an idea of how the RWD looks like, it is not how the real ship looks like.)


Rock Wall Destroyer (RWD is part of Somethingey's immortal program, this ship has passed all the test given to it. For more information on the program contact Somethingey navy)

Purpose: Multi-job, can do carrier escort, scouting, and other jobs that you can think of. Can also do "open sea" work, which means it can do work by itself in the open sea. Its the first all Somethingey design ship, also, it is to be exported, but only to certain nations that can be trusted. The ship is best for acting as a decoy. Price is about 1.5 billion USDs, unless you are an ally, then the price is about 1 billion.

Statistics:
Displacement: 7,000 ton
Length: 500 ft
Beam: 82 ft 5 in
Draft: 32 ft
Speed: 26 knots
Crew Complement: 682
Power Plant: Two A1B Nuclear Reactor
Shafts: 4

WEAPONS:
1x MK 45 5-inch
5x M2 .50-Caliber
2x MK 15 20mm CIWS
20x BGM-84 Harpoon
40x RIM-67 SM-2 Standard Missile
12x MK 46
5x LSM or MK 57
40x VLS Launch Tubes ( 32 in the front and 8 in the back)

COUNTERMEASURES:
AN/SLQ-20 Seesaw
AN/SLQ-49 Decoy
AN/SLY-2 AIEWS
AN/SRS-1 Combat DF
AN/UPX-28 IFF
SSTD
PRAIRIE MASKER
Degaussing

SENSORS:
VSR
AN/SPY-3 MFR
IROS3
AN/KAS-1A
AN/UMK-3 TESS
AN/UMQ-12 MRS
AN/SQS-35 IVDS
AN/SQS-56 Hull Mounted
AN/UQQ-2 SURTASS

COMMUNICATIONS, COMMAND, & CONTROL INTELLIGENCE:
Radio Group
VHF/UHF Comms Group
FLEETSATCOM
ForceNet (Command version)
MK 7 AEGIS
MK 36 Fire Control
MK 41 Vertical Launching System (VLS)

Others:
VAST (Training version)
Helipad (In the back, can hold one small-to-medium size helicopter)

OOC: If you see a problem with the design please tell me. Also I used the website http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/systems/index.html for everything used on the ship.

We'd like to enquire about purchasing some of these

There is still no word if it is to be exported, but if it is, the price is estimated to be about 1.8 billion. Maybe less if some equipment is removed. Also, mind you that the RWD is still in testing. You will be informed when it is ready for export, if it will be exported at all.

OOC:
Size wise it is far too big for a destroyer (unless you use a soem what funky designation system, modern destroyers top out at around about 10,000ton give or take a few thousand tons and length wise don't exceed 150-160m or about 500ft).
weapons wise i still think you should be using a vertical launch system (VLS)since you are using RL weapons that can be used from such a system. if you want to stick to Rl US weapons then the mk41 system would be an ideal choice. The Rl ARLEIGH BURKE class has 96 tubes that it uses for a mix of tomahawk and standard missiles and it is perfectly possible to fire harpoon ASMs from these tubes aswell.

Personally i would do soemthign a bit different here either make a vessel in the 6000-7000ton region with fewer VLS tubes (for mk41 the num,be rof tubes should be a multiple of 8 such as 64 or 72) and posisbly using a slightly better CIWS. If you were wanting soemthing really different i could let you use soem of attempts at equipment and weapons either as is or as potential inspiration.

OOC: Thanks:D

The Ministry for Defence would like to purchase one of these cruisers to evaluate its performance.

Understood, you will get a training model, please inform our admiral on how the test go. It should arrive in a few months, like 2 or so. Thanks.

I was hoping this was going to be a device for destroying rock walls :(
now what am i gonna do:confused:

I was hoping this was going to be a device for destroying rock walls :(
now what am i gonna do:confused:

OOC: I can make a destroyer that can do that if you want:)

occ: well no thanks cuz i just had to invent one (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v293/grunt74/NS1/rockwalldestryoer.jpg) :P

The Rock Wall Destroyer is now open for export.

Crook, I dunno how you missed the armour. The armour on that destroyer would weigh around 20-30,000 tons, WAY in excess. In fact, there has never been a vessel constructed in real life that had that much armour, the deck armour on Yamato was 7.5~ inches, and had an 18" belt, and the ship weighed around 70,000 tons full. Really, you shouldn't even be armouring a destroyer at all but if you gave it that much armour it would weigh around 40-50,000 tonnes.

OOC: Thanks

The armour is still too much. As I said, there should be no armour on a 7000 ton ship.

The armour is still too much. As I said, there should be no armour on a 7000 ton ship.

No armor now. Thanks again.

no problem.

OOC: bump. Is the price too much?

OOC: bump! No buyers? Come on! If you don't buy I'll...well lets just say it won't be pretty.:mp5: lol

OOC: One last bump...